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If you don't hate something the way rich athletes hate rubbers, are you really living?

Something like this would not only be the best for fans, but it would also be the most profitable model. Maximizing eyeballs and there would be very few programs with a legitimate gripe that they got left out. A 40 team model would to a shit ton of lawsuits and basic apathy from the 30ish fanbases that would get left out in favor of 20ish schools that are basically on the same tier as they are. That would draw worse ratings than the modern iteration, I suspect. I still think if you're trying to get more exclusive, then you get extremely exclusive and put the 16-20 schools that are actually capable of winning a national title in the current system in their own division, and the back half of that 40 team model join up with teams 70-40 for a 50ish team level. I think this would eventually be more appealing to the back half of the 40 team model, which will really have nothing other than saying they made the cut to hang their hats on. They will never be competitive in that setting, and a lot of those fanbases will get apathetic from mounting losses. Then you have the Iowa States, Oklahoma States of the world raising holy hell. All of a sudden a school like Arkansas or Iowa goes from being the whipping boy in a 40 team model to being a national title contender at the next level. And the 16-20ish team top tier would probably have a lot of parity, and those fanbases will be given exclusively blue blood-ish slates. Either make the top tent a fairly inclusive thing where most of the schools know they have little shot of competing, but they're happy to be in the ring, or make it fucking tiny and only composed of those with a shot to win it.

It really makes you think that extra notch was Tang

Oh, for sure. There's a really good Minneapolis thread in this forum. I've given my general recs in there. Not sure of anything I'd add. If the Twins are at home that weekend and it doesn't conflict with the match, you should absolutely go. Target Field is beautiful.

Depends on what you're looking for. Minneapolis has lots of great places to eat and drink. If you're traveling to go a soccer game for a weekend, I'd assume that's all you're really looking for in a destination, right? If you're looking for a lengthier type thing, that is a really nice time of year to get up into the north woods, but that's gonna be a 2 hour drive one way from Minneapolis/St Paul. Minneapolis in June can be hotter than you likely expect (100 degrees wouldn't shock anyone), but will almost certainly be cooler than Texas.

Never seen it. I'm not a Coen super fan, although 3-4 of their movies are in my all timer lists.

Why do you think we’re playing this awful schedule?

Agreed on that. Some of these Midwestern accents are ridiculous too. Lars the Golfer just sounds like someone trying to make fun of Minnesota and going over the top.

Jennifer Jason Leigh dressing down Hamm was epic

I was in an Italian market on Saturday and saw these little loaves of giardeniara focaccia. I knew what had to be done. Leftover brat, olive salad, pepperoncini, stone ground mustard, Colby Jack, sriracha. It’s not a muffaleta hot dog, but it’s adjacent

This reminds me of when my wife's aunt/uncle and cousins used to come back to Iowa around the holidays. I'd always offer to take her cousins' husbands out for a tour (which would involve stopping at a few bars) and there were always death glances from the women, because the intention was to all sit in their grandparents' house for 3 days doing absolutely nothing. We live a half hour away from where the grandparents house was, and they were basically locked to the city limits, and even then we couldn't go up to the bars in town.

I'm not super familiar with Wichita, but if you can't find a good watering hole in a Midwestern city, you didn't look very hard.

How in the hell are we #6 in the NET with those VA Tech and Aggy losses? I realize we're beating these buy squads by 50, but those teams are awful.

I would sure take that 11-7. I was a little discouraged by our performance in the Thanksgiving tournament, but I do think we've got the pieces to get there, assuming Hasan Ward is full strength for league play.

I live in the Midwest. I get my fill of fish frys during Lent.

That’s where I was hammering the oysters. Grabbed a Bloody while I was at it

Oysters and Schlitz

Super Dave

God, I forgot that part. Agreed.

That's a great one. I liked the one that follows it alot, too. That's the one where Larry gets extorted by the family of the girl who can't act for shit.

My kid isn't old enough to listen to music on her own, but my buddy's 11 year old daughter got him listening to Olivia Rodrigo, and he turned me onto that, and I legit like it. It's like if the Blue Album was made by a sexy 20 something instead of an emotionally crippled Gen X incel.

This is my favorite exchange in the entire series. The first time I watched this episode, I was eating, and started choking because I was laughing so god damn hard I got a chunk of food stuck in my windpipe.

I'd hammer that.

I think you’re in the right place

I always thought it was a reference to someone acting like a "white knight" and not that good behavior was universal to white people.